Talk- Upcoming challenges in HPC- Million Cores, GPUs & Clouds
Rajesh Chhabra
Director, Enterprise Computing, Asia-Pacific, Altair

Abstract:
In the race to deliver higher performance than ever, recent trends in HPC domain have shown that the large clusters with many-core chips will continue to rise. In fact the clusters in the range of several hundred thousands to a million cores are just around the corner.

Graphical Processing Units (GPUs) are rapidly establishing themselves as a complimentary technology rather than a competition to the multi-core chips. The CPU+GPU systems have been gaining popularity due to its favorable performance-per-dollar and performance-per-watt attributes.

Cloud computing has been one of the most talked subjects in the computing world for over a year now although the clouds are still trying to establish themselves as an extension to the in-house HPC. This talk will discuss the technical and business challenges associated with the latest trends in HPC.